Ping to read later.
Get back to the kitchen and cook me dinner, woman.
Discussed on FR earlier, and I think the concensus was "Don't marry a b*tch!", and it just so happens that there tends to be a higher proportion of b*tches among career women than normal women, but that may not even be the case, or the difference may be small.
Beer me, Marge!
Sounds like someone struck a truth nerve.
My solution is "not getting married." I figure that by the time I'm forty and rich, there will still be plenty of divorcees and manipulative twentysomethings for me to date.
I reckon it' ddepend upon the woman. if she's a rabid feminist, then she'd probably have a career. That would probably be a bad match for any poor fellow dumb enough to get mixed up with.
On the other hand, there are some nice ones. The problem is that they're subjected to a barrage of male bashing and criticisms on an ongoing basis by management in the guise of "sensitivity training exercises". If you can find one that hasn't been warped by that, you'll probably be OK.
Mine is a formed Dean of Students. a more wonderful woman cannot be found - career or not.
Hehehehehehehe...
I'd rather marry a professional woman than one of those amateur women.
The amazing thing is that, as a guy, I don't think I'd mind doing all the guy things (mow yard, kill spiders, etc) if all I could get was a minimal amount of respect. That's all. While I'm not yet married, there is something undeniably fun about doing The Man things when the ladies need them done and I get to do it. If they have a bare minimum of appreciation for them.
Marrying a career woman is just plain stupid, unless you are one of those rare male golddiggers. But it's still stupid because you'll still be miserable, but while driving a nicer car...
It is not a cultural thing. It is simply the way we are wired (designed). Men and women were designed with different purposes in mind.
Marrying a "career woman" is fine as long as you're the kind of guy who doesn't mind sharing your wife with someone else. In truth, she'll have two spouses--you, and her job.
What kind of career? Some women make a career out of having kids....or cooking and cleaning.
Being married to a career woman, and currently being the primary caregiver for two kids, I can identify a lot with what is in the article. I have a small business that I try to run in the in-between times.
There IS more conflict being married to a career woman. Even if you are the primary bread winner during her education (as I was), that tends to be forgotten when the tables turn after her career becomes established. It's sort of a "What have you done for me, lately?" situation. Furthermore, if the woman gets to be THE boss at work and comes home to her Celt-to-the-core spouse after work, who will not knuckle under to intimidation (and is also fairly impervious to physical coercion from experience in the bar and racetrack pit wars of his misspent youth), there is going to be even MORE coflict.....but I digress......
Dudes, be careful what you wish and work for. You might just get it!
Put Another Log on the Fire
Put another log on the fire.
Cook me up some bacon and some beans.
And go out to the car and change the tyre.
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,
And then go fetch my slippers.
And boil me up another pot of tea.
Then put another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.
Now don't I let you wash the car on Sunday?
Don't I warn you when you're gettin fat?
Ain't I a-gonna take you fishin' with me someday?
Well, a man can't love a woman more than that.
Ain't I always nice to your kid sister?
Don't I take her driving every night?
So, sit here at my feet 'cos I like you when you're sweet,
And you know it ain't feminine to fight.
So, put another log on the fire.
Cook me up some bacon and some beans.
Go out to the car and lift it up and change the tyre.
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,
And then go fetch my slippers.
And boil me up another pot of tea.
Then put another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/outlaws-the/put-another-log-on-the-fire---tompall-glaser-2736.html
Artist/Band: Outlaws, The
Lyrics for Song: Put Another Log on the Fire - Tompall Glaser
Lyrics for Album: Wanted!
Relationships between men and women have been distorted for some time, and the economic system has changed as well.
So, you have the queen bitches who want to make it to the top so they can lay down the law and make their husbands lie down, roll over, and beg, and you have the women who haven't been able to find a decent family man to marry and ended up having to work, like it or not. Our economy and our divorce laws and our cultural assumptions now pretty much demand that a lot of women have to work, like it or not.
In other words, there are exceptions to any rule.
"Get me a beer woman, and don't block the TV."
Any wonder that liberal American women are lamenting the fact that liberal American men want no commitment? Women get married to feed their need for emotional, and sometimes financial desires. I can see liberal men saying, "What's in it for me? Fidelity? Respect? Nope." More and more American women are spoiled and unfeminine. If I were in the search mode, I may look offshore for a wife.
It seems most men today want their wives to work and earn money - the more they earn, the better - and they want the kids in daycare. So, I guess they are shocked by this column.